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Historical Event on 7/23/1904
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/30/1996 | PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve |
| 5/10/1992 | Dr. D.S.Tyagi, Chairman of the Agricultural Costs and Prices Commission, was shot dead by suspected Sikh terrorists in Delhi. |
| 6/11/1964 | Dr. Jayant Narlikar, great mathematician of India, submitted his thesis to Royal Society of London. |
| 7/11/1957 | Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League. |
| 8/15/1969 | Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy. |
| 9/20/1989 | IPKF suspends its operations against LTTE in Sri Lanka. LTTE, in turn, ceases all operations against the Indian armed forces. |
| 8/19/1977 | Earthquake measuring 7.7-8.9 on the Richter Scale hits Indian Ocean. It is believed to be the strongest ever earthquake. |
| 11/1/1966 | Haryana state was created from Punjab, and Chandigarh was declared as the Union Territory and capital of both Punjab and Haryana. |
| 11/1/1966 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 11/1/1966 | Saint Namdev passed away. |
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